Jerome, on Matt 24:6

“And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”

“Figuratively; Kingdom rising against kingdom and pestilence of that discourse which spreadeth as a plague-spot, and hunger of hearing the word of God, and commotion throughout the earth, and separation from the true faith, my be rather understood of the heretics, who fighting among themselves give the victory to the Church.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.